The 10th Anniversary of "Patriot's History of the United States"

Amazon ^ | 10/1/2014 | LS

[LS]

Our 10th anniversary edition of "A Patriot's History of the United States: from Columbus's Great Discovery to the Age of Entitlement" is now up on Amazon.

Hard to believe it's been 10 years and over a quarter of a million sales, but we welcomed the opportunity to update our book. "Patriot's History" now goes through the entire first Obama term and into 2013. In addition, however, we did a thorough revision, adding the latest scholarship and reassessing where appropriate. For example,

*We strengthened the sections on the infiltration of the FDR and Truman administrations by communists.

*We added new information about the command decisions at Pearl Harbor, especially Short's mind-boggling change of the alert codes without telling the War Department

We incorporated new scholarship on the culture of the Puritans and their lasting influence on the Revolution.

And across the board revisited all of our scholarship.

The main point of the revision, however, was to update the book because it is now in use in HUNDREDS of high schools and in at least 32 colleges and universities! It was a joy to write the first time around and while a top-to-bottom revision is painstaking, it was worth it. I hope you all enjoy this.

[stevecmd]

Great Book and resource to help muddle through the liberal bilge pump of History class in Marylands public and private schools.

[Andyman]

I wholeheartedly endorse this book.

[Making_Sense [Rob W. Case]]

I bought this book when Glenn Beck recommended it on his show within the first couple of years of the Obama presidency. What I like most about it is that it goes beyond the contrived narratives that the left sets up in that it draws a contrast between real history and the revisionist history the left set up to win over and maintain a favorable image so as to maintain their power structure. It is a valuable resource for any and every person who's more interested in history than agenda driven, revisionist history.

[Making_Sense [Rob W. Case]]

Excellent!

[Sergio]

Another book to order.

[LS]

Thanks. I think also there are things where we challenge some “conservative” positions, such as the neo-Confederates, the FDR/Pearl Harbor/conspiracy stuff, and in the new edition we conclude from Reagan’s diaries that he indeed knew about Iran-Contra.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Congratulations on your new edition! I’m sure it’s a relief to get it out the door, tempered most likely by the certain knowledge that you still haven’t “fixed the last bug” in it.

I wish I thought that you had put in some history of technology, including especially the technology of communication and propagation of opinion. Whole books have of course been written on the development of individual technologies - and on the development and sins of my bete noir, the Associated Press.

[LS]

I know-—it’s already 1000 pp and you just can’t cover everything. I got crticized yesterday for only having one mention of Las Casas.

[SamAdams76]

Just received "A Patriot's History" with the companion volume "Patriot's History Reader" today! Looking forward to digging in to them. Just browsed through them and looks like they will be a very impressive addition to the library.